Poll: Americans, 2-1, fear Obama’s reelection

posted at 12:45 pm on January 10, 2012 by Tina Korbe

In a Washington Whispers poll released yesterday, twice as many Americans said they fear Obama’s reelection as said they fear he won’t be reelected. U.S. Newsreports:

In our New Year’s poll, when asked what news event they fear most about 2012, Americans by a margin of two-to-one said Obama’s reelection. Only 16 percent said they fear the Democrat won’t win a second term, while 33 percent said they fear four more years.

Next to Obama’s reelection, 31 percent of Americans said they feared higher taxes, which may be proof that the president’s focus on the payroll tax cut has hit paydirt.

The poll, however, held out some hope for Obama. Some 38 percent of younger Americans, 18-24, said their biggest fear was higher taxes. Just 28 percent of those same voters said they feared Obama winning in November.

To be sure, some of the 31 percent of those who said the 2012 news event they fear most is higher taxes or the 16 percent of those who said Iran might acquire a nuclear weapon could be more afraid of Obama losing reelection than of him winning — but, the point is, a significant percentage of Americans recognize that four more years of Obama is a frightening prospect.

Regarding those young voters who fear higher taxes but want Obama to be reelected: Are they aware that the GOP is the party of no new taxes? President Obama’s payroll tax cut is abundantly misleading, a piece of deficit spending that adds to the debt young voters will have to pay off. Meanwhile, Obamacare alone imposes 18 separate tax increases that will transfer more than $500 billion over 10 years from hardworking American families and businesses to Congress for spending on new entitlements and subsidies. Obama is the king of tax hikes by any other name.

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Yet, they’ll re-elect him. By Nov. they will even be convinced that he’s poor, more white than black, religious, hard-working, smart and all sorts of insanities.

Schadenfreude on January 10, 2012 at 12:47 PM

I sincerely hope not. I am praying that the masses cannot possibly be that stupid. Although, my dad used to say “the masses are a$$es”, so it’s anybody’s guess.

Not that I want this to happen, but if the American public gets hit with much higher gasoline/utility costs, which looks likely to happen before the election, perhaps they’ll wake up and finally smell the coffee burning.

They are afraid Obama won’t be re-elected even though he will be the only candidate who has never fired anyone, never wanted to outlaw contraception, never wears magic underwear, has never divorced, and has always been in touch with the middle class?

Regarding those young voters who fear higher taxes but want Obama to be reelected: Are they aware that the GOP is the party of no new taxes? President Obama’s payroll tax cut is abundantly misleading, a piece of deficit spending that adds to the debt young voters will have to pay off.

The problem with both young voters and nearly half of the voting public in general is that they have been conditioned to vote against their political rival, regardless of the policy positions that “their party” has.

This is due to them being more concerned with doing a victory lap for “winning” then anything else, because everyone knows those dang dirty ____s will just mess it up more!

Our current (and when I say current I am talking 10-20 years)political class and education system encourages this line of thought and all its destructive tendencies.

Yup. All we have to do is find someone who likes America and capitalism and they automatically trump the incumbant 100 fold. Thank God we don’t have to try and beat Bill Clinton. We’d lose 50 states with this group of candidates.

Regarding those young voters who fear higher taxes but want Obama to be reelected:

This is typical of our dumbed down educational system. Democrats benefit by keeping folks ignorant. The ignorant are so gullible, it’s easy to manipulate them with lies and propaganda. The MSM has seized on this fact and uses it to further their socialist/marxist DNC ideology.

I think you may well be disappointed yet again. Many of my liberal friends are starting to take a shine to Romney if and when he becomes the nominee. True its just anecdotal evidence on my part, but you should probably start to worry never the less.

People who are wondering how this goes with Obama’s numbers don’t realize what the poll actually asked. It didn’t ask people whether they feared Obama winning or losing more. It asked of these events which do you fear the most.

Here is the poll question and possible answers:

As we enter the presidential election year of 2012, what potential news event do you fear the most?

President Obama wins reelection 33%

Taxes will increase 31%

Iran will get a nuclear weapon 16%

Obama will lose reelection 16%

North Korea will attack South Korea 4%

So, you could spin this to say that 51% worry the most about something other than whether or not Obama is elected.

Polls are always fun to look at but it trips me out how people hyper ventilate over them. Polls change daily AND remember the sample size of 1 or 2 thousand is supposedly representive of over 360 million people. I personally rather intrade.com least people there are backing up their opinions w money and not just their .2 cents

People who are wondering how this goes with Obama’s numbers don’t realize what the poll actually asked. It didn’t ask people whether they feared Obama winning or losing more. It asked of these events which do you fear the most.

Here is the poll question and possible answers:

As we enter the presidential election year of 2012, what potential news event do you fear the most?

President Obama wins reelection 33%

McDuck on January 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM

… Which makes the headline blatantly false–by a 3-1 margin, Americans are not scared of Obama’s re-election.

This doesn’t make sense. If you know something isn’t working, it is insane to continue trying. Obama had free reign politically for two years, and his policies have produced anemic growth. In contrast, Reagan faced a worse economic crisis when he entered office and delivered growth in 1983 and 1984 that ignited one of the strongest 25 year periods of economic growth in U.S. history. Indeed, between 1983 and 2007, the United States endured strong growth and only two mild recessions (1990 and 2001).

The general rule for recoveries has been the greater the decline, the stronger the recovery. So, the recovery in 1983-84 was much stronger than the recovery in 1990 and 2001. By this standard, Obama’s record is weak at best.

Americans may re-elect Obama for a second term. But they will not elect him because he is the devil they know. They will elect him only if they believe that his polcies will work with one more term. I don’t believe his policies could work with three more terms; but it is not disingenuous for an American voter to disagree with me and give Obama one more shot.

Which makes the headline blatantly false-by a 3-1 margin, Americans are not scared of Obama’s re-election.

jonknee on January 10, 2012 at 1:13 PM

Yes, the headline is a little misleading (not Tina’s fault, U.S. News is the one that created it), but it doesn’t mean what you are saying here either. It means that 67% fear something more than they fear Obama’s re-election. You can be scared of one thing, but be scared of something else even more.

Make no mistake, Obama will run a campaign that blames everybody and everything else for his failure. A do-nothing Congress, GWB, the economy, whatever. Remember, Obama views himself as among the top four Presidents in history with only LBJ, Lincoln, or FDR as possibly being more super than he.

Most 18-24 year olds haven’t paid much in taxes. I remember when my daughter in law got her first pay check after graduating from college. She nimbly ran from the liberal policy she had advocated since high school. Something about “them” taking her money!

The very thought of Barack Obama winning a second term puts me in a state of gibbering terror.

My vote won’t matter, because I’m in California, surrounded by blithering Liberals who are going to vote for Obama come hell or high water. If he murdered his children on national TV, I suspect they would think it was a necessary thing for the good of the nation.

But I can donate to whomever wins the nomination, and I will, no matter who it is. I’d donate to a four month old ham sandwich if it were the nominee at this point.

If I survive to the election it will be a miracle. This whole mess is unbelievable.

Regarding those young voters who fear higher taxes but want Obama to be reelected: Are they aware that the GOP is the party of no new taxes?

You’d be surprised at how many teenagers are actually curious and open to the principles of fiscal conservatism. It wouldn’t be that difficult to sway young people who currently vote democrat into voting republican. But, so long as you have people like Santorum, Bachmann, and other social conservatives who demonize gay people, young people are going to be turned off by the GOP entirely, even if they may agree with the GOP’s stance on fiscal issues. Which is a tragedy in my opinion.

In our New Year’s poll, when asked what news event they fear most about 2012, Americans by a margin of two-to-one said Obama’s reelection. Only 16 percent said they fear the Democrat won’t win a second term, while 33 percent said they fear four more years.

Most likely the other 51% didn’t want to answer that they fear the re-selection of a man who wants to fundamentally change the country because they didn’t want to be branded Racists.

“I fear the Lame Duck period after the election. I have no doubt he will do as much damage as he can.”

I fear the idea of a radical socialist internationalist in power for four years without having to run for re-election and with no respect for co-equal branches of government, the US Constitution, the law, or the well-being of Americans other than the ones he picks as winners.

I pray the 2/1 stick to their guns and vote him out. But I also pray that, if he wins reelection, he loses control of the senate (and we keep the house) so impeachment procedures can start on January 21, 2013.

Oh I wonder why? He ONLY ignores the Constitution, wishes there were no separation of powers, wishes he had the power that the leader of China has, bows to foreign dictators, ignores the will of the people, uses clandestine organizations to further his agenda, plays golf instead of leads, uses class and race warfare, appoints rogues in positions of power, is openly hostile to anyone who disagrees with him, lives the life of an aristocrat while the “rabble” are left to suffer…wonder why folks fear him? I feared this 4 years ago. Too bad more folks didn’t see what was right in front of them. If this clown and his wife get another 4 years America may never recover.

Yes, the headline is a little misleading (not Tina’s fault, U.S. News is the one that created it), but it doesn’t mean what you are saying here either. It means that 67% fear something more than they fear Obama’s re-election. You can be scared of one thing, but be scared of something else even more.

McDuck on January 10, 2012 at 1:21 PM

True. Statistically speaking on any given day there may be more people who are afraid of snakes than Obama’s re-election.

They key bit is, how many people even know this is an election year? Or who the candidates are, or even, God help us, who the president is now? But they all know what snakes are and whether they are afraid of them or not.

I would bet that a large percentage of the population hasn’t thought about the elections all that much. Even the “self-proclaimed” Republicans.